So I was wondering if i make my flavorah naked menthol/ peppermint mix can I crush some raw 10 leaves from my garden and throw them in to my pg VG 50/50 mix while it’s mixing and shake them with my eliquid for 10 min and then take leaves out ? It will give me amazing aroma and stuff like u use it for drinks 1 leafe and u can smell it right away , I think same thing will be with e juice , what you think ? Is it safe ? Can I do it to get extra real organic garden nice mint smell in my juice ?
99.9999% of people do not have have the required, and very expensive, equipment necessary to extract the mint flavor from their garden variety plants. Professional flavorists have this equipment in their labs. If extracting from real organic plants they would be growing the finest plants.
You have zero clue how safe your plant is when it comes to extracting the mint only flavor. What nasty chemicals might be found in your plants? You wouldn't know. Your plants are not grown in an organic certified lab. How would you know you are getting "only" the desired compounds found in a mint flavor? You wouldn't. You would need to know what compounds constitute mint flavor.
Considering flavorists already know the exact compounds found in nearly every item known to man it would be better to continue searching for a "mint" flavor that suits you best. There are many mint flavors.
Have you tried FA Spearmint? It's said to be a very accurate mint flavor. Might be worth your time.
Worth reading...
When making a flavor, a flavorist always begins by going to the scientific literature and researching what chemicals nature uses to make the desired flavor. He then selects from the list of flavor components found in, say, real apples, generally simplifying natures list to eliminate those chemicals that make little contribution to taste or are not permitted owing to toxicity. (Nature has no restrictions on using toxic chemicals, whereas the flavorist does.) The flavorist then either chooses chemicals that are natural (isolated from nature as described above) or synthetic chemicals (made by people) to make the flavor.
So is there truly a difference between natural and artificial flavorings? Yes. Artificial flavorings are simpler in composition and potentially safer because only safety-tested components are utilized. Another difference between natural and artificial flavorings is cost.
The search for "natural" sources of chemicals often requires that a manufacturer go to great lengths to obtain a given chemical. Natural coconut flavorings, for example, depend on a chemical called massoya lactone. Massoya lactone comes from the bark of the Massoya tree, which grows in Malaysia. Collecting this natural chemical kills the tree because harvesters must remove the bark and extract it to obtain the lactone. Furthermore, the process is costly. This pure natural chemical is identical to the version made in an organic chemists laboratory, yet it is much more expensive than the synthetic alternative.
Consumers pay a lot for natural flavorings. But these are in fact no better in quality, nor are they safer, than their cost-effective artificial counterparts.
